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A week after deadly Cobra shooting, what we know about the investigation

A week after a man and a woman were fatally shot in the parking lot of an East Nashville bar and music venue, detectives continue examining evidence collected from the scene and three people of interest.

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Julie Ewell hugs an employee outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, where two victims were killed as part of a string of shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Joshua Goble lights candles at a memorial at The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, where two victims were killed as part of a string of shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Julie Ewell wipes a tear as she talks about one of the victims outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, where two were killed as part of a string of shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Frederick Morton, who lives with his wife near The Cobra bar, said Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, that he hopes his East Nashville community doesn't change after a shooting there left two dead. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Flowers and mementos rest outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in memory of two of the three victims killed in a string of unsolved shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Flowers and mementos rest outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in memory of two of the three victims killed in a string of unsolved shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Flowers and mementos rest outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in memory of two of the three victims killed in a string of unsolved shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Flowers and mementos rest outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in memory of two of the three victims killed in a string of unsolved shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Flowers and mementos rest outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in memory of two of the three victims killed in a string of unsolved shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

Flowers and mementos rest outside The Cobra bar Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in memory of two of the three victims killed in a string of unsolved shootings that have terrorized Nashville this month. George Walker IV / The Tennessean

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Police place crime scene tape Monday, Aug. 20,, 2018, around a home on Dr. DB Todd Jr. Blvd. in Nashville, Tenn., where Demontrey Logsdon was taken into custody for questioning in last week's shooting outside The Cobra bar.
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A week after a man and a woman were fatally shot in the parking lot of an East Nashville bar and music venue, detectives continue examining evidence collected from the scene and three people of interest.

Three men who were charged on Monday with other crimes remain of interest to investigators, according to police. Two of them have been accused of using credit cards stolen from victims in the Aug. 17 robbery-turned-shooting that killed Jaime Sarrantonio, 30, and Bartley "Brandon" Teal, 33, outside The Cobra on Gallatin Avenue.

Police believe that shooting is connected to the Aug. 14 fatal shooting of 31-year-old Kendall Rice in Madison.

Rice was walking to a bus stop on Alta Loma Road in Madison when he was shot and killed. According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, evidence collected links the two crimes, which also involve similar suspect descriptions.

No charges have been filed in the homicides, but police spokesman Don Aaron said there have been "significant advancements," including the collection of "scientific evidence."

"Our detectives and scientists at the crime laboratory remain very busy," Aaron said. "The investigators remain very interested in the persons who have been jailed."

Here's what we know about the case.

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Duke's bar co-owner Joey Plunket is concerned for murder victims who were killed outside The Cobra Nashville bar.
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Lacory Lytle, 24, Demontrey Logsdon, 20, and Horace Williamson, 27, have been jailed on other charges, though police have attempted to speak with them in connection with the killings of Rice, Teal and Sarrantonio.

Police identified Lytle and Logsdon as persons of interest from surveillance images, physical evidence and observations by officers, the department said.

Lytle was charged with using a surviving robbery victim's credit card at a grocery store after the fatal shooting. Two other adults were with Teal and Sarrantonio at the time suspects robbed the group in the parking lot around 3:30 a.m. and fired the fatal shots.

Court documents said Logsdon also used a credit card belonging to one of the victims at a gas station three hours after the killing.

As funerals held for victims, online fundraisers have been set up

"I pray that if all the people are not apprehended right now, I pray that somebody from the community will reach out and make that right phone call, because we're not the only family here that has been broken," said Bart Teal, his father. "There are other victims here of this terrible crime."

Teal was laid to rest earlier in the day Tuesday.

A funeral for Sarrantonio is scheduled for Saturday in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where her family lives.

Earlier that morning, the Goodlettsville Police Department began investigating an attempted robbery after a victim reported that two men armed with a rifle attempted to rob him at 4:45 a.m. at Rivergate Meadows Apartments at 100 Rivergate Meadows Drive. The victim was able to drive away.

East Nashville, Aug. 17: Around 3:30 a.m., Sarrantonio and Teal were shot during a robbery in the parking lot of The Cobra bar at 2511 Gallatin Ave. Both died from their injuries.

Along with two others, the two victims had left the bar and walked to a nearby convenience store to get snacks. When they walked back to the parking lot, two men in a dark-colored sedan pulled up and exited the vehicle to rob them, police said.

Teal was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died during surgery. Sarrantonio was taken to Tristar Skyline Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Reach Natalie Allison at nallison@tennessean.com. Follow her on Twitter at @natalie_allison.